The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-11-17

partially and administered impartially
and Justly, as the laws Of South Carolina
were enacted and administered, there
should be no grounds of complaint. In
reference to the relation of South Caro-
lima to the Federal Government and her
Individual rights, Gen. Butler spoke Mt
length. He said the people decry the Fed
oral Constitution is thing of the past.
Under it the States have not tho rights
they had before the war. Where is tho
che Ige? Why, only in the 18th, 14th
ant 10Th amendments. Not otunother line
has Oeon c.,0ngcd, and as far us the ri2h hts
OF the States are concerned, the Consti-
tuition today Is the same as in 1860. Con
gress, the speaker said, was usurping the
rights Of the States, but there was Il man
at the head of the nation, Grover Clcvc-
land, who respe' ed those sacred nights.
The dangerous tendency Of the tincB
was the calling upon Congress to settle
individual matters aud TO take jurislic-
ton i'll cases whero il had no right under
tho laws and the Constitution of the
United States. Congress was attempting
to assume the power of the Parliament
of Great Britain.
In speaking of Cleveland Senator
Butler said the President had been dc
nounced i'll this State as we'll as others
for his civil service policy. This policy
of the President was simply upholdiug
tho laws which he himself (Butler) aud
his friends on the stand had helped to
pass. 1t Ill becomes any man in South
Carolina to criticise The President for
tins action. Whatever it has done for
other States, it has been everything for
South Carolina. When Cleveland leaves
,,ntl lao, 1,
llcans in office. (Voice in the audience:
"But they are there now."D Butler:
every few, and ut any rate there are
none III South Carolina"
Senator Butler spoke ior some time
on tho surplus in the treasury. When
asked how he would reduce IL, he said
he would start by taking the tax of
elghty-thrCe per cent. oft salt and sixty
per cent. OF hat or piece OF cloth.
lie read statistics on tariff rates AMI
showed the enormous tax put upon the
people by the present tariff system. He
was convinced that 40 laboring man WAS
protected by the tariff. Ii so, why was
there so much discomfort, bloody riots,
strikes, &c., among American laborerB?
The real reason of such discomfort was
that Congress passed laws strengthening
capital and crushing individual effort
The money went into the capitalists
pockets that was taken from labor
Cleveland was blamed for the surplus il
the treasury, when he ButlerJ and his
colleagues on the stand were ten thou
sand times more responsible and yet IN
able to prevent it. We have profound
cause fol congratulation that man like
Cleveland is at the head Of the Govern
mcnt. He has made that contemptibIo
Haunting of the bloody shirt thing of
the past The foundation of the Gov
crnment was the right of home rule
the right Of the people to regulate their
own affairs with due regard to the gen.
eral Government, and he hoped the time
would never come when the people OF
this State would ever give up thei
rights.
Senator Butler gave United States
Judge Bond u terrible scDring when re-
ferring to the oppression of the people
III this State, and wished it understood
that he was willing to reitcrate his re-
marks in New York, Washington, or
anywhere else.
At 1910 the association *. .journCd.